Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction to a 1965 reissue of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children, the poet and critic Randall Jarrell defined a novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also...
Marianne Gingrich, whose husband Newt is the House Minority Whip who initiated the Wright inquiry, is herself being scrutinized for her role in promoting Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity. Part book (co-authored by a science fiction writer), part polemic, part tax shelter, Window lost money for its investors, but earned the Gingriches $12,018 in royalties and Mrs. Gingrich $11,500 in salary. When asked about this at a press conference last week, Marianne stomped out in tears...
...dinosaur? Anyone who has ever acted on instinct and called it common sense. Everyone who has ever been zealous, fiercely loyal, ruthless, or even submissive or terrified at work. In examining the corporate stomping grounds, the book dredges up some worthwhile wisdom from the tar pits...
...decide which ones merited publication. Given the choice between guillotine and press, the issue can hardly have been in much doubt. Larkin might have had mixed feelings about his Collected Poems, which contains more than 80 pieces never before seen in print and some two dozen previously uncollected in book form. But the poet's army of admirers -- solitary types, for the most part, who are often surprised to bump into fellow enlistees -- need suffer no such scruples. This volume only enhances Larkin's imposing stature...
Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born lambs) are hymns to the inexorable rhythms of the seasons, to which each human, unfortunately, has only a short-term invitation. "Church Going" deals with a man-made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing...